"Festival" by H.P. Lovecraft

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While the ceremony is of a different form, the substance of it seems just as dark and sinister as in the short story "The Festival".

The picture used is of indeterminate copyright status - if you know it is not usable, let me know and I will remove it right away. But it is a cool picture, and just imagine what is almost certainly actually sand in foreground is really snow, to better match the poem.

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